Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.

(22 Prairial) procedures for mass trial and execution implemented. Victims will go to the guillotine now in batches of 50 or 60 at a time. An estimated 2,750 are executed of whom the great majority are poor.

(9th Thermidor) Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre. Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops, is arrested and executed. After about 150 of his supporters are done away with, the Terror is over.

Third phase: The reaction. Limit on price of bread removed. Reactionary gangs beat up revolutionists in the streets.

12th November 1794:

Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention.

1st January 1795:

The Churches re-open for Christian worship.

May-June 1795:

White Terror instituted in the South.

8th June 1795:

The Dauphin dies in prison, Comte de Provence assumes title of Louis XVIII.

22nd August 1795:

Constitution of Year III approved, establishing Directory.

5th October 1795:

Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.

26th October 1795:

The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.

2nd February 1796:

Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy.

26th February 1796:

Directorate bans popular meetings at the Panetheon.

10th May 1796:

Leaders of Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals” arrested.

7th September 1796:

100s of supporters of Babeuf attack palace of the Directorate but are routed.

27th May 1797:

Babeuf and his supporters are convicted but take their own lives.

May 1797:

Elections produce a Royalist majority. Elections in 1798 and 1799 produce a more radical result and are annulled by the Directorate.